Summary Writeup Real Time Strategy 09.07
Jun 9, 2020 21:20:15 GMT
Varis/G'Lorth/Sundilar, Ian (Menace), and 4 more like this
Post by Tazmuck on Jun 9, 2020 21:20:15 GMT
All adventurers directed to the Ettin, including us. It’s very busy.
Everyone is in the Ettin - everyone has been called there.
Khazifa Onyxdex walks in. Says she has a plan
Says she has a devil in a cage taken from Avernus and asks to follow us.
Tells us Zariel is controlling the timing of the portal and has an army at the ready behind it. Also says that there must have been another key, after the seals, that Zariel controls. Tells us that this means only Zariel can open or close the portal.
Leads us to the caged devil in dirty silver armour. They look similar to havershai - draconic face and scales, but also skin and non functional wings. Is bound to chair. Some kind of fiend basically. It’s a narzugon - a paladin serving the hells. Her name was Voxis.
Khazifa wants to know about the key. Her plan is to send us into her (the fiend’s) mind and find out.
We enter the mind of the devil.
We find a large iron gate protecting a massive city, with colourful castles in the background. Inside there are loads of shelves, lined with figurines. The castle in the distance has windows that are bleeding. We also see a silver dragonborn paladin teleporting shelf, destroying things.
Then the dragonborn teleports in front of us. We rush it and take it (non-lethally) down. It dissipates and starts smashing glasses somewhere else.
We head to the castle. On the way we hear the dragonborn picking up statues, saying ‘greed, corruption’ or ‘envy, corrupted, before smashing them
We come up the stairs chased by blood. Find the dragonborn (in her own mind)
She says she saw her city besieged. But corruption from within took down her city. And so she turned to try to expunge corruption from the city.
Sheryl persuades the dragonborn into talking about Zariel.
Voxis says that since death she has been blessed to serve the archduke of hell eternally. Has served well. But asks to be killed so that she can no longer serve the hells.
Voxis says that she has seen a lot inside the hells. She says inside Zariel’s tower there is an area that no one can go to. She knows there’s a great power inside that tower that is difficult to control, and that that’s where Zariel went just before the portal opened.
Has heard reference to some sort of elemental power. There’s a blue trim around the doors to that part of the tower, no one is allowed in.
We kill Voxis as promised, and leave her mind, and then kill the bound, real life Voxis too. We tell everything to Khazifa and she says she has a plan:
Khazifa’s plan:
The portal needs power on both sides. The elemental power source in Avernus and the blood ritual on the material plane. If we can send a strike force into the tower, we might be able to close the portal.
To give people a shot at taking the tower out, we can get the armies together, kul goran and daring heights, and we charge. We might need to take the unbroken seal - and break it when ready to open the portal and charge in for that to work.
We also need a distraction for Zariel as she will know that we are coming for the tower. So we need:
-An army at the gates / portal - who use the seal to march through the portal on our terms.
-A strike force to directly hit Zariel
-A third force to sneak around the back into the tower and take out the elemental power.
Everyone is in the Ettin - everyone has been called there.
Khazifa Onyxdex walks in. Says she has a plan
Says she has a devil in a cage taken from Avernus and asks to follow us.
Tells us Zariel is controlling the timing of the portal and has an army at the ready behind it. Also says that there must have been another key, after the seals, that Zariel controls. Tells us that this means only Zariel can open or close the portal.
Leads us to the caged devil in dirty silver armour. They look similar to havershai - draconic face and scales, but also skin and non functional wings. Is bound to chair. Some kind of fiend basically. It’s a narzugon - a paladin serving the hells. Her name was Voxis.
Khazifa wants to know about the key. Her plan is to send us into her (the fiend’s) mind and find out.
We enter the mind of the devil.
We find a large iron gate protecting a massive city, with colourful castles in the background. Inside there are loads of shelves, lined with figurines. The castle in the distance has windows that are bleeding. We also see a silver dragonborn paladin teleporting shelf, destroying things.
Then the dragonborn teleports in front of us. We rush it and take it (non-lethally) down. It dissipates and starts smashing glasses somewhere else.
We head to the castle. On the way we hear the dragonborn picking up statues, saying ‘greed, corruption’ or ‘envy, corrupted, before smashing them
We come up the stairs chased by blood. Find the dragonborn (in her own mind)
She says she saw her city besieged. But corruption from within took down her city. And so she turned to try to expunge corruption from the city.
Sheryl persuades the dragonborn into talking about Zariel.
Voxis says that since death she has been blessed to serve the archduke of hell eternally. Has served well. But asks to be killed so that she can no longer serve the hells.
Voxis says that she has seen a lot inside the hells. She says inside Zariel’s tower there is an area that no one can go to. She knows there’s a great power inside that tower that is difficult to control, and that that’s where Zariel went just before the portal opened.
Has heard reference to some sort of elemental power. There’s a blue trim around the doors to that part of the tower, no one is allowed in.
We kill Voxis as promised, and leave her mind, and then kill the bound, real life Voxis too. We tell everything to Khazifa and she says she has a plan:
Khazifa’s plan:
The portal needs power on both sides. The elemental power source in Avernus and the blood ritual on the material plane. If we can send a strike force into the tower, we might be able to close the portal.
To give people a shot at taking the tower out, we can get the armies together, kul goran and daring heights, and we charge. We might need to take the unbroken seal - and break it when ready to open the portal and charge in for that to work.
We also need a distraction for Zariel as she will know that we are coming for the tower. So we need:
-An army at the gates / portal - who use the seal to march through the portal on our terms.
-A strike force to directly hit Zariel
-A third force to sneak around the back into the tower and take out the elemental power.
